And I *am* medicated (most of the time).

The thing is, meds are supposed to be a temporary support to stabilize people while they are getting therapy. Like you said, pick them up off the floor, but only enough that the therapy can have an effect.

Some people need the meds more long-term, like the little boy who bites his teachers. And me (I don’t bite my profs, but I do have a chemical imbalance). But even here, therapy and parental/social intervention will help. Maybe then bitey child won’t need quite so *many* meds.

If people think the only way to manage their child’s or pet’s behavior is through drugs, perhaps they shouldn’t have kids or animals. Not until they learn how to be responsible caregivers. (I know that sounds facist, but I’m tired of seeing kids medicated to their eyeballs, hardly able to stay awake, getting brain damage from over-medication because they played the “but why?” game one too many times.)